Emacs crashes on Mac Yosemite (native window system) when I use set-frame-font with certain font patterns. The cause is writing past the end of an alloca buffer in fontset.c:fontset_pattern_regexp. This triggers a stack check assertion. Alloca is used to allocate space for a regexp, but the size neglects to consider the ^$ around the regexp. “+1” should be “+3”. To reproduce: (set-frame-font "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--24-*-75-75-m-150-iso8859-1”) without X installed. Bug in 24.3 and "GNU Emacs 24.4.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.1.0, NS apple-appkit-1344.72)”.